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toposes

toposes is the plural of topos.

Meaning of topos

Noun

topos (plural topoi or toposes)

  1. A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula.
    • The ritual of weighing the soul was an iconographic topos familiar to Christianity from the ceremony of the weighing of sins at the Last Judgement.2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 239
  2. A category that behaves like the category of sheaves of sets on a topological space (or, more generally, on a site).
  3. (slang, Rugby School) A toilet.

Forms of toposes

alternative formtopoi

Questions about toposes

What is toposes the plural of?
Toposes is the plural of topos.

Words near toposes in the dictionary

  1. topos
  2. toposcope
  3. toposcopes
  4. toposequence
  5. toposequences
  6. toposes
  7. toposheet
  8. toposheets
  9. toposite
  10. toposites
  11. toposome

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